don’t you dare | tree riesener

try
to cut us apart and go to her
does she know
that your top layer
for oh say an inch under your skin
is me as well as you
you can’t
wash away that many years
of sleeping so close
that getting up in the morning
requires gentle effort
to pull us apart
breathing my air for so long
has lined your lungs
with my molecules
sitting with you over coffee
she’ll end up sucking me in
a crime scene squad
could test her for my dna
and come up positive every time
remember how we’d go to bed
in stiff anger
wake up conjoined twins again
jesus and sophia tight
you don’t have enough years left
to sleep with her enough nights
to replace me in your skin
our bodies will call out
crawl toward each other
like twins hacked apart
hurry us to some alley or room
where they can lie down
desperate to undo the operation
move into their conjunction
sigh with healed content
you might as well give up now
forget this surgery and let them be